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SIDE STREETS: Political rantings echo across the centuries

The Century Chest was opened Jan. 1, 2001, at Colorado College's Tutt Library. It was emptied and its contents documented in a book: The Century Chest Letters of 1901: A Colorado Springs Legacy, edited by Judith Reid Finley. The chest was then refilled w Photo by Courtesy theSpecial Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College

Louis R. Ehrich was a Colorado Springs investment broker and ardent Democrat who organized the Century Chest, sealed Aug. 4, 1901. He wanted the time capsule to bridge the century with greetings to Colorado Springs residents in 2001. Photo by Courtesy theSpecial Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College

William Alexander Platt was editor of The Gazette under Colorado Springs founder Gen. William Jackson Palmer. Platt later started the Evening Mail, which became the Telegraph, after Palmer sold the Gazette in 1897. Photo by Courtesy theSpecial Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado College